Role: Government Soft Landing Manager
Location: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, London, Sheffield, Newcastle or Manchester (whichever is closest – 40% on site – may be some travel to other sites required)
IR35: Inside
Rate: £400/day (Umbrella) + expenses
Duration: Until 31/3/25 initially
Experience Required:
Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Experience delivering projects to Government Soft Landings/BSRIA soft-landing principals on a range of different project types and scale.
- Experience of specifying and/or assessing Environmental, Social, Security and Economic outcomes
- of projects.
- Familiar with Post Occupancy Surveys with a focus on asset management.
- Improving digital records/digitalisation of data through either Government Soft Landings approach or BSRIA soft-landing principals.
Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Document control experience, along with document control process management.
- Understanding of Asset management Planned Preventative Management regimes (e.g. SFG20, FMS002), with knowledge of how Soft Landings approach can assist cost saving.
- Knowledge of property data management systems, computer aided facilities management systems and Government Digital Standards.
The Role:
Reporting to the Asset Information Management (AIM) G7, the role will help in developing & implementing an assurance process that will help keep structured project information validated for use by asset management colleagues with a focus on transferring Project data into asset management data. It is intended that there will be an initial phase of strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and process development, with the aim to put this in to practise across a number of pilot projects. The role will have a need to be adaptive and pro-active in their approach, with scope for wider responsibilities in supporting their line manager. The right candidate will be the touch point for a range of internal teams, field leading supply chain partners and other Government Departments.
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Under Government Soft Landings Revised guidance for the public sector on applying BS8536 parts 1 and 2 (updated for ISO 19650) act as the GSL Champion, delegating responsibilities to other area SME’s where appropriate by redefining current ways of working.
- Assist the work of the BIM Manager in assuring and improving capture of information by integrating the Government Soft Landings approach in to current ways of working & assist develop best practise where applicable.
- Working with internal stakeholders and supply chain partners in the delivery of Life Cycle, CAPEX or other refurbishment projects into the asset management workflow, whilst ensuring health and safe-ty, time, quality, and cost constraints are not compromised.
- Assist in the definition of target performance outcomes with other SMEs at the outset of the project and manage their continued targeting throughout the life cycle of the project. These requirements should be established following consideration of the business case and the functional requirements of the facility. These will include Environmental, Social, Security & Economic performance out-comes.
- Lead on the development of a best fit approach to Post Occupancy Evaluations (POE) across the department by conducting workshops and engaging with key stakeholders to ensure a holistic approach.
- Working with FM Supply chain partner to ensure projects deliver a suitable solution which has the long-term benefits found thorough best practise Asset Management and client-side facilities management services (field teams, asset management surveyors, etc).
- Ensuring lessons learned are carried out as best practice and findings are collected and distributed across stakeholder groups, and post project evaluations are conducted and recorded. This will include developing processes and defining procedures.
- Supporting the timely assurance and submission of individual project option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases and asset management review papers; driving design innovation and in-creasing preferred product knowledge in the department.
- Working across departments to co-ordinate input from other in-house specialist teams (SMEs) including commercial and technical specialists.
- Working at pace to develop project proposals from inception through to timely completion, evidencing value for money solutions and benefits realisation.
- Identifying risks and issues, ensuring compliance, and mitigation planning; managing early warning notices and contributing to core groups when collaboration needs to be replaced/bolstered with contractual remedies (liaising with the Supply Chain Management function).
- Liaising with key stakeholders, delivery partners and constructors in highlighting to Asset Management hierarchy that key GSL project milestones are on track, all relevant policies are considered (such as sustainability), and all project GSL reporting is assured and submitted on time; in line with the Government Soft Landings/BSRIA soft-landing principals.
- Developing, monitoring, and managing performance levels of supply chain partners against performance indicators.
Disability Confident
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